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Have you ever reached a point where you recognized that an early life-story has led you down a dead-end path? Whatever the source of that faulty story, you can rewrite your own story through “imagistic writing.”

At some point, many of us have had to change a thread in a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Sometimes that thread is part of a major story in our life. What’s lost and what’s gained in the process?

My brother and I recently discussed “messages” given us by others that we carried into adulthood. We realized one specific message: My mother could throw no worse epithet than, “You’re selfish, just like____.”

As we track thoughts about our life stories, we begin to notice messages that guide us from important people in our world. But what happens when a family’s messages are colored by parents’ insecurities?